Required reading
All of grace by C. H. Spurgeon (available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example) - Read Chapters 4 and 5.
My summary
In Chapter Four Spurgeon shows that it is only God who can justify. Then in Chapter Five Spurgeon demonstrates that God can do justify rebels and yet remain just.
What grabbed me
I thought Spurgeon's claim was interesting that the doctrine of the atonement actually authenticates Scripture as divinely inspired: 'The doctrine of the atonement is, to my mind, one of the surest proofs of the divine inspiration of Holy Scripture. Who would or could have thought of the just Christ dying for the unjust rebel? This is no teaching of human mythology or dream of poetic imagination. This method of atonement is only known among men because it is a fact. Fiction could not have devised it. God Himself ordained it; it is not a matter which could have been imagined.' There are certainly many facets to the atonement, including that it is too remarkable to be a human invention. The plan of salvation in Scripture has divine fingerprints all over it!
Now it's your turn
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